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Functional Clothing Design comprehensively explores how wearable products are designed and created for a specific purpose using the latest technological innovations. This cutting-edge text is ideal f

One of the most important decisions a student will make is their selection of an educational institution to fit their needs. The Fairchild Directory of Fashion Schools provides an accurate, comprehens

The new edition of The Fairchild Dictionary of Retailing clearly defines terms commonly used in all parts of the retail industry, from retail advertising to merchandising and displays.This comprehensi

This seminal text demystifies the terminology of working in the fashion industry today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that you need to know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials, new technologies, and processes. This book has been reorganized in a purely alphabetical order for easy reference. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 illustrations capturing the styles and details of fashion, this reference work is a must have for students, designers, fashion merchandisers, librarians, and fashion enthusiasts. The fifth edition also includes online availability to vocabulary and image flashcards via STUDIO for easy on-the-go access.

This seminal text demystifies all the terminology around working with textiles today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that you need to know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials and biobased textiles, intelligent and 3D manufacturing, new technologies, and processes. Entries cover fibers, fabrics, laws and regulations affecting textile materials and processing, inventors of textile technology, and business and trade terms relevant to textiles. Highly illustrated with over 400 images, entries include pronunciation, derivation, definition, and uses. The ninth edition also includes online availability to vocabulary and image flashcards via STUDIO for easy on-the-go access.

This seminal text demystifies the terminology around being an interior designer today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that a designer must know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials, new technologies, and processes. Coverage of non-Western cultures is expanded and provides insights into their influence in a global marketplace. This comprehensive reference covers multiple aspects of interior design and architecture, addressing structural and decorative features of interiors and their furnishings, business practices, green design, universal design, commercial and residential interiors, new workplace design, and institutional and hospitality facilities. The fourth edition also includes vocabulary and image flashcards via STUDIO for on-the-go studying.

"Books such as this are imperative for our students to learn skills taught as part of a class. Although this book is geared towards interior design, the content and skills development will be as impor

Retail Buying, Seventh Edition integrates math concepts throughout the text to guide students through typical buying tasks, from identifying potential customers, to creating a six-month merchandising plan, to developing sales forecasts. Updated with examples and trends from across the world, this book will keep readers informed on how the retailing industry is adapting to changes like an increased focus on sustainability, the growth of digital retailing, and impacts from the coronavirus pandemic. Practice problems and updated information tables further help students to analyze and interpret data across relevant subjects like global buying and sourcing, omnichannel retailing, and social media.New to this Edition: -Updated coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and the expanding usage of social media and mobile technologies-Increased emphasis on product sustainability and changing consumer behavior -New and updated Trendwatch and Snapshot featuresInstructor Resources-The Instructor’s Guid

The Interior Plan is an introductory-level text introducing students to the process of interior design space planning. Topics include the design of effective spatial sequences, functional relationships among project parts, arrangement of furniture, planning effective circulation systems, making spaces accessible, and designing safe environments with efficient emergency egress systems. Exercises throughout the book facilitate learning by encouraging students to apply ideas and concepts immediately after reading about them. In the third edition, the author expands on the evolution of design ideas and how they affect interior environments and the people who use them, thinking sustainably, and how interior elevations and reflective ceilings affect the plan.New to This Edition -New and updated examples in residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality planning-New spreads addressing interior elevations, reflected ceiling plans, and interior planning for sustainability -New pedagogical fe

Sustainable Fashion: Take Action, Third Edition presents a fresh exploration of practices that are underway in design and production within the fashion industry and the possibilities for future directions that can be taken now. This book focuses on innovative action needed to achieve the goal of creating healthier environments, reducing climate change, and improving the well-being of all people as they choose and wear clothing. This third edition continues to delve into the role that fashion plays in a sustainable future, through the interconnected model of “Connecting with People, Processes, and Environment”, which marks the focus of the book’s three sections. Covering a wide range of sustainability practices, the chapters are written by both academic and industry professionals, providing a balanced view of the topics with breadth and depth and suggesting routes for further examination.New to this Edition:-Thoroughly revised to cover advancements since the last edition, topics of equ

Apparel Design Through Patternmaking is a fresh design-oriented flat patternmaking text that gives fashion students a new perspective on patternmaking knowledge and skills they need to develop contemporary women’s, men’s, and children’s wear. This book covers a comprehensive range of concepts in flat pattern drafting, such as fit, style, and design development, and the modular approach allows for flexible design options across age, gender, and size, as reflected in current fashion trends. 200 detailed principles address proper measurements; body shapes; dart manipulation; neckline, collar, and sleeve variations; fit issues and corrections; garment details; and more, all of which are easily visualized with hundreds of line drawings and photos. Reference size charts and a decimal conversion chart included in the Appendix make this text user-friendly for international students. Key Features: - 20 slopers, 30 foundations, and variations - 220 detailed principles of patternmaking - 100+ ap

The manufacturing and distribution of textiles and apparel products is a truly global industry, making it crucial to understand current political, social and economic developments within the internati

Learn about how the fashion industry works to find where in this massive industry you belong. You'll learn about how and why fashion evolves and changes, the materials used and who creates them, the

The manufacturing and distribution of textiles and apparel products is a truly global industry, making it crucial to understand current political, social and economic developments within the internati

The manufacturing and distribution of textiles and apparel products is a truly global industry, making it crucial to understand current political, social and economic developments within the internati

Learn about how the fashion industry works to find where in this massive industry you belong. You'll learn about how and why fashion evolves and changes, the materials used and who creates them, the

Learn about how the fashion industry works to find where in this massive industry you belong. You'll learn about how and why fashion evolves and changes, the materials used and who creates them, the

Now with brand new color chip technology, using perforated cardstock chips that are easily removed and easily moved around the color charts before gluing down. Adaptable to both studio and lecture cou

Learn about Western dress from the ancient world to today. Each chapter shows you the social, cross-cultural, environmental, geographic, and artistic influences on what people wore. More than 600 imag

Learn about Western dress from the ancient world to today. Each chapter shows you the social, cross-cultural, environmental, geographic, and artistic influences on what people wore. More than 600 imag

Learn about Western dress from the ancient world to today. Each chapter shows you the social, cross-cultural, environmental, geographic, and artistic influences on what people wore. More than 600 imag

AutoCAD continues to dominate the two-dimensional drafting marketplace for architects and interior designers. Digital Drawing for Designers: A Visual Guide to AutoCAD 2021 is designed to help this com

Fashion Business Cases: A Student Guide to Learning with Case Studies allows students to apply what they are learning in the classroom to real-life situations in the global fashion industry. Adapted f

Improve your drafting skills and construction-documents literacy. Construction Detailing for Interior Design offers step-by-step lessons for students learning to draft interior construction details. I

Building information modeling (BIM) is rapidly replacing AutoCAD as the digital drawing tool of choice for architects and interior designers-and Revit (R) Architecture is the leading software package

For fashion students who want to be both in the now and in the know!The Dynamics of Fashion, Fifth Edition, has the latest facts and figures, and the most current theories in fashion development, prod

Featuring the most current and high-quality fashion fabrics, Swatch Reference Guide for Fashion Fabrics, Fourth Edition, is an all-in-one text and swatch book focused on the needs of fashion students.

The second edition of the ASID 2014 Joel Polsky Prize winning Human Factors in the Built Environment is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that integrates the relationship of the human body and s

Building information modeling (BIM) is the new AutoCAD® for architects and interior designers-and Revit® Architecture is the leading software package in the BIM marketplace. Revit® Architecture 2018 f

Programming and Research: Skills and Techniques for Interior Designers provides a step-by-step approach to mastering the process of documenting client and user requirements for any design project. Rep

Fashion Fibers: Designing for Sustainability is an accessible reference tool for fashion students and designers who want to learn how to make decisions to enhance the sustainability potential in commo

Provides an integrated and cohesive view of the product design process, covering materials, manufacturing, idea generation, computer-aided design, engineering functions, product types, and market rese

Motion Graphics acts as a primer by arming designers with a wide understanding of the discipline and a familiarity with the core principles, concepts and terminology.Part 1 introduces the 'tool set' t

Approximately 15 per cent of the fabric used to make the average garment does not end up in the garment. Instead, it is left behind as off-cut waste. In light of the billions of garments globally prod

From the basics such as paper sizes and terminology through working with images and text, exploring different pre-press techniques and the processes involved in bringing a product to press and with a

Smart Textiles is a new field of design and engineering emerging in relation to Technical Textiles, Wearable Technology and Smart Materials. In its most basic definition, a smart textile can exhibit r